Young apes like to tease and monkey about with adults just like humans but why?

Young apes like to tease and monkey about with adults just like humans but why? It seems it is about testing social boundaries which requires intelligence.

This is another study which reminds us how close humans (the ‘naked ape’ as per Desmond Morris) are to our primate cousins the apes. A research study has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which is the first to study the teasing behaviour of apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans (4 …

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